1 BB for Betances. OH YEA!
If he’s not traded for the allstar break I think he’ll be headed to Scranton once theres an opening.

http://danielslifka.wordpress.com Jerome S.

Still made two outs. Unacceptable.

http://danielslifka.wordpress.com Jerome S.

effing reply fail

Xstar7

Jesus Montero had a multi-hit game? Impossible.

Monteroisdinero

far more likely than Nick Swisher at a fraction of the cost!

Bpdelia

Meh. 92 pitches in 5 innings isnt, strong. Its decent. One bb is nice but nearly 20 an inning and a poor strike to ball ratio means the kids still struggling with command.

Nothing to worry about but not ready for a bump till that’s ironed out

Skip

My reading of this site has taught me to be skeptical of those numbers because you never know what the coaching staff or development team is thinking. They might have wanted him to work on his offspeed stuff that drove up the pitch count, but spotting his fastball for the K’s.

All in all, I have no idea, but I’ll just take the K/BB ratio as my indicator.

Jake H

Betances’ last 2 starts are great.

He’brew Beer Rules My Ass

He’s shaping up nicely for a July trade.

CraftyLefty

No Dominican Summer League wrap-ups?

China Joe

Romine seems to be having a solid under-the-radar year so far (hopefully he’ll stay strong in the second half and prove last year was just fatigue).

Has there been any word on Romine’s defense? Any improvement?

http://www.stnyanks.com ash

N.B.: That’s a 10-game hitting streak for Jesus Montero, dating back to May 20. Longest was a 14-game streak that started at the end of last season.

Xstar7

True, but several of the games in that streak were 1 for 4 or 5’s with multiple strikeouts.

http://twitter.com/SteveH_MandAura Steve H

Hitting streaks don’t tell the whole story. He hasn’t been all that good these last 10 games.

http://twitter.com/AndrewLeighNYC Andrew

Hitting streaks are terrible, Montero sucks because he’s only hitting .306 in AAA, get rid of him.

http://twitter.com/SteveH_MandAura Steve H

Exactly what I said.

That .306 average is lower than it was 10 games ago, by the way.

JohnnyC

Hitting streaks are just a clever distraction from the truth of total offensive suckitude. If he was a real prospect like Hosmer he’d have 20 homers, slug .600+ and an OBP of .500 right now.

JobaWockeeZ

Hosmer did none of that but okay sure. People didnt want himc alled up because they were scared his his high BABIP and sucky ISO.

But continue.

NC Saint

Obvious troll is apparently not obvious enough.

JobaWockeeZ

Jesus Christ what have you’ve done with my meter?

http://twitter.com/SteveH_MandAura Steve H

Yay, Montero is on a 10 game hitting streak with a .268/.318/.390 line!

http://twitter.com/AndrewLeighNYC Andrew

He sucks, send him and Brackman back to AA once and for all. Call up Romine.

http://www.simdynasty.com/index.jsp?refer=Jeety Jeety

obviously the hitting streak does not tell all, but it shows that he’s finding a way to get a hit each day…

This could be a sign that he’s adjusting to certain things and getting some consistency going.

It doesn’t mean he’s been great but it can be an indicator of him starting to find a groove…

*click the link if you like baseball games*

Andrew

But, it could also just be a sign that over the course of a ton of games, a player who hits .270 or .300 or .330 will have a 10 game hitting streak every so often. Going 1-4 does not seem like a sign of success or adjustments to me, it seems like its a guy who has talent but is not playing up to his potential yet.

Bob Michaels

Banelous is a LHP.

Xstar7

This man is a genius.

BigTimeBartolo

Why isn’t Kramer Sneed starting down in Low-A?? The kid has been dynamite so far

mbonzo

I was just watching Man v. Food, one of my favorite shows, and this came on.